Because raids are just bad designed other forms of “dungeons” with just this time 10 instead of 5 people….
You follow just a trail and have to beat on the trail 3 bosses to get the reward..its exactly like a dungeon..nothing new.
When people asked for raids, they wanted something NEW and not warmed up old coffee with just increased number of players that can play it together.
Thats mainly the problem, why people complain about raids and especially because the raids are in that regard bad designed, because they favor specific class builds to the point, that they and just only they become so mandatory, that you need them, otherwise you will fail because of the lack of DPS and this braindead stupid timer in the background that forces you and your party to go for full DPS, otherwise you will fail because of the bosses becoming quickly too powerful so that they can one hit kill you….
Thats imo far far faaaar away from good game design in my opinion and absolutely not what I understand under a Raid.
For me is a Raid Game Content in an ever with each instance changing environment (Dungeon Crawler Style) that you play with like 20-50 people together so that you form a real Squad and not just only a larger groop, so that there is absolutely more than space enough, that you can take people from every class with you who wants to join your Raid Squad for the run that is then organized in like 2-10 Groups max
(2×10, or 4×5 or 10×5 or 5×10 people in regard how many peiople are maximum allowed to come into the Raid Section you want to play (part of the difficulty setting, so higher the difficulty, so lesser people may come with you, but so bigger are the rewards for everyone)
In a Raid you don’t fight just threee bosses and be done with it… in a raid you fight unendless hordes of monsters and bosses, that become very slowly tougher to beat, so deeper you get into dungeon. Goal of a Raid is it sinply to show who can get the deepest exploration of dungeon to even reach its end and beatign the final boss after countless of enemies, riddles, traps ,other bosses and so on on your way that are just there to make your way to the end harder.
Raids in my opinion should work also in GW2 like a combination of Dungeons and Fractals, where you have every now and theren in parts of the raids to handel some kind of negative room effects that make overcoming these parts of the raid challenging, not static negative effects that are everytime the same, but as of the nature of a randomized dungeon craweler, so shoudl be also these negative room effects everytime different.
Enemies you have to fight against, evrytiem different, as that will help the point, that raids won’t become too quick too boring, because its everytime the same….
Doing a raid hould feel to each participating player in the Raid Sqard, as if it would be everytime a completely new and different challenge, thats what i understand under a raid and not warmed up old coffee-dungeons with just static ways where you do everytime the same by beating 3 bosses to get your rewards
BOOOORING!!! and absolutely not creative, not what we really asked for, because I can’t remember myself that anyone here suggested by talking about Raids, that we want to have Dungeons 2.0
Another different form of how they coud have done Raids into GW2 is with a gameplay mechanic that includes also PvP elements, by adding again Factions by aaddign Faction Raids, where Raid Squads of different Factions fight agaisnt each other in a kind of WvW similar environment for the goal of “who kills more bosses and who loots more treasure chests over time x to declare, which faction won the raid” instead of this classical dungeon raid thing that they unneccessarely needed to link to the PvE lore/story… so that people find now in LW3 npcs which talk about persons and things, about which players have absolutely no clue about, as logn they haven’t played the raids – great job anet and alienating your player base by this dumb decision that makes your LW3 partwise now immersion breaking, despite yiu sayign, that peopel dont need to have to play the raids, to understand the LW3 story – yes thats right, but this doesn’t include all your npcs and what they are talking …/doh !!!
Whoudl I have been responsibl for Raids, I would completely redesign that stuff from scratch as it absolutely doesn’t fit to GW2, the stuff thats already there woudl i recycle and integrate into the lousy tiny start of LW3’s first episode to make it alot longer and in every aspect completed, instead of lettign it be such a switzer cheese full of design and lore holes that lets player which haven’t played the raids yet stand there sometimes with only ?‘s in their face, because sometims your’ missing the conections from what a npc is talking to the current LW3 episode, as logn you have not played the raids to understand about what the npc is talkign right now or referrign too..or you talk about things, as if you would have been there within the raid, despite you haven’t really done it ….and thats whats immersion breaking, when npc’s start to talk about unlayed eggs and assume you have done something in the past, when you haven’t done yet at all what the NPC is talking about… as if they would be some kind of backward-fortuneteller, who can read the past from just talking with you despite you seeign these npcs for your first time, and they talk with you, as if you woudl know them already your whole life!!! >.>
Nope, you can turn it as yiou want, raids were terribly implemenmted into this game and as a result of this, suffers now the living world content massively in its quality.
great job.
